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WMO has designated Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres
who have responsibility for the issue of tropical cyclone warnings
in their area and should be used as a first source of information.
Links are also provided to other tropical cyclone warning centres
and Met Office tropical cyclone forecast guidance.
WMO's
Severe Weather Information Centre
| Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres |
| Other tropical cyclone warning centres |
| Met Office tropical
cyclone guidance messages |
The Met Office issues tropical cyclone guidance messages twice
per day based on information from its global model forecasts.
Links to these messages are provided below for information only.
These are not official tropical cyclone forecasts and therefore
should not be used exclusively to make decisions which will affect
life or property. Refer to forecasts issued by one of the RSMCs
(above) for official forecast information. Also note that the
messages are only routinely issued during the stated seasons,
although messages are issued out of season if a storm is active
or forecast.
The messages are primarily designed to give an indication of the
Met Office global model's forecast track of tropical cyclones,
which are known to exhibit some skill. Explicit forecasts of maximum
wind speed are not given as the model (at its current resolution)
cannot resolve the wind field with sufficient detail. However, a
qualitative indication of forecast wind strength is given based
on the model's relative vorticity field (at the 850 hPa level).
| Tropical
cyclone satellite images and observations |
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